A reflection: the other day i went with a friend of mine to buy food for his pet snake. He told me it is no longer allowed to feed and grow living rats and mice as fodder for reptillians. Why: i do not know, but the interesting thing was that he was so worried about the health of his snake and what possible kind of testing the rodents had been subjected to. He told me that the last pack of freeze dried mice he bought all had bleeds from their noses. He was worried about wheather they had had their eyes sprayed with cosmetics and if the food contained toxins.

What surprises me the most is not the fact that my friend cares about his snake and the condition under which the mice and rats he feeds his snake has been cultivated. Weather they have been subjected to medical or cosmetical testing and if the food is safe for the snake to eat. What fascinated me was the fact that he seems so unaware of how our domestic farm animals are treated that he has never thought about wheather the food he feeds himself really is safe to eat and the condition under which the farm animals have been bread. The simple fact is that the food we eat today contains less and less nutrients and more and more toxins.